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* [gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie
  @ 2014-03-25 20:08 99%                                     ` »Q«
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From: »Q« @ 2014-03-25 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:37:20 -0400
Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:

> On 3/20/2014 5:48 PM, »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Why should Gentoo have a default?
> 
> Defaults are always a good idea - as long as they are reasonable and 
> rational.

In that case, Gentoo is missing a lot of "good" things, from a default
system logger to a default desktop environment.

AFAICS, the benefit of defaults, provided they're reasonable, is that
they remove the burden of making choices from the user.  But I keep
reading that Gentoo is all about user choice.

> > ISTM the only good reason is that not having a default would make
> > the documentation a lot more complicated.
> 
> Documentation, *and* the install process itself.

I'm not seeing that at all.





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2014-02-15 15:16     [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie Tanstaafl
2014-02-18  0:35     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-02-18  2:05       ` Gevisz
2014-02-18  5:30         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-02-18 17:06           ` Andrew Savchenko
2014-02-18 17:22             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-02-18 18:07               ` Andrew Savchenko
2014-02-18 18:14                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-02-19  7:04                   ` Daniel Campbell
2014-02-19 12:38                     ` Tanstaafl
2014-02-20  5:43                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-02-20 12:53                         ` Tanstaafl
2014-02-21  3:36                           ` Mark David Dumlao
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2014-03-20 20:00                               ` Tom Wijsman
2014-03-20 20:27                                 ` Andrew Savchenko
2014-03-20 21:15                                   ` Tom Wijsman
2014-03-20 21:48                                     ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2014-03-21 10:37                                       ` Tanstaafl
2014-03-25 20:08 99%                                     ` »Q«

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